If you’re dreading picking a health insurance plan, you’re not alone.
“Consumers would rather go to the gym or pay taxes than shop for health insurance,” said Lynn Quincy, director of the Health Care Value Hub at Consumers Union.
In focus groups, even those with the knowledge to pick the best plan often had little confidence in their choice, worried that health plans contained tricks or traps they didn’t catch, she said.
That’s not just a problem for the millions of people trying to renew their health plans or pick new ones. It’s a problem for policymakers trying to improve the health of the population and ensure that the expansion of health care coverage under the federal health law does more than give a lot of people new insurance cards, experts said Tuesday at a symposium on health insurance literacy hosted by the Health Disparities Institute at UConn Health.
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